Little Penguin Quilts Through the Year

Friday, May 13, 2016

A little bit of green...

Thank you, quilty friends, for all of your good wishes and encouragement since I first posted about my broken wrist. Last week, when I saw the doc again, I came home with a brace instead of a cast.

Although this still restricts movement of my wrist (especially anything that involves twisting my arm), it does give me lots more use of my fingers! So, little by little, I am figuring out what I can do and how I can do it!

After I realized I could sew a little bit with precut pieces, I went hunting around in my leftover bits of binding and found some green that could easily be turned into a 16 patch block.

Then I got really brave and decided to try cutting! Lol! I don't even want to begin to explain how I did this, but I did make it work, and made one more 16 patch block. However, I don't know if it was a good idea as it was a bit scary and included fingers awfully close to the cutting blade. (No more trips to the ER, thank you very much!)

This is my fabric find of the week - so perfect for the forest green idea.

My 2 1/2 inch square bin held a few more greens, so I also stitched up some four patches.

So, progress is made, in little bits and pieces, and I feel like I am accomplishing something! And I'll be linking up to Scrap Happy Saturday with Angela tomorrow!

I sucked in my breath at the "I don't even want to begin to explain how I did this," as I can well imagine! Glad you can DO something though; I can barely imagine how frustrating the enforced absence from quilting could be. And hey! I have that exact tufts of grass green fabric! It's an oldie but a goodie right? I need to get cracking on my 2 RSC projects as the month is almost half gone!

You've done a great job since you were incapacitated. Perhaps its time to teach your hubby to cut fabrics? Or the cat maybe? Hmmm. That would be pushing it a bit I think. I know mine loves to "help" me sew, but perhaps cutting is a bit more than she will do. LOL